Rebecca Smith: All Documents

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Pension Schemes Bill (First sitting)

"Q Are there not going to be too many hoops to jump through to prove that the trustee is correct, if they have to prove it to a regulator? I suppose that is what the safe harbour means. Will the trustees have the benefit of the doubt, or are …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Pension Schemes Bill (First sitting)

"Q This builds on something that was mentioned in the previous panel by Age UK—that a lot of the education that will need to be done to ensure that people understand what is going on, particularly with the small pots consolidation, could fall on Government, charities or providers. As …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Pension Schemes Bill (First sitting)

"Q Are you effectively saying that if you put the customer first, which is ultimately what this entire piece of legislation is trying to do, then, at the moment, other regulations will stop that from happening, so we might want to look at that?

Dale Critchley: Yes...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Pension Schemes Bill (First sitting)

"The privacy piece came up earlier this morning as well, so that needs looking at.

Dale Critchley: If we deliver something that looks towards targeted support, where instead of just saying, “This is the solution you will go in if you make no choice,” we say, “This is the solution …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
2 Sep 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - View Vote Context
Rebecca Smith (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 88 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 365 Noes - 164

Division Vote (Commons)
2 Sep 2025 - English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - View Vote Context
Rebecca Smith (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 88 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 367

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Pension Schemes Bill (Second sitting)

"Q Given the international experience that both of you have in this realm, I am interested to know whether there is either anything in the Bill that you think is a red flag or anything that you think is a missed opportunity and not in the legislation in front …..."
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Speech in Written Corrections - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Cabinet Office

"The Government are clearly very happy to claim that all is rosy after their first year in power, yet on the ground in my constituency and around the country, the opposite story is being told. The Government’s policies are hitting my constituents hard—whether it is the impact of increased national …..."
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Written Question

Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal: Men

Monday 1st September 2025

Asked by: Rebecca Smith (Conservative - South West Devon)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of claims for (a) discrimination, (b) harassment and (c) unfair dismissal were brought by men in the last year for which records are available.

Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Our latest published statistics for Employment Tribunals can be found using the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

This data details the number of receipts by jurisdiction and the number of claims disposed. The Department does not collect the proportion of those claims brought by gender or the number of claims relating to paternity leave.

This data is currently published up to March 2025 and only includes the cases received on digital systems and does not include those transitioned from paper-based systems.